Joseph mungee



(No Model.)

J. MUNGER.

SHEET METAL BOX.

Patent ed May 27, 1884.

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JOSEPH MUN GER, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SH EET-'M ETAL Box.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,489, dated May 27, 1884.

Application filed April 5, 1884. (No model.)

2" tr whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OSEPH 1VIUNGER Of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of the box; Fig. 2, a vertical central section; Fig. 3, a side View of the box, showing the opening, the plate being removed; Fig. 4, a face view of the plate detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in sheet-metal boxes, particularly designed for match-safes, but applicable to other boxes, and that class in which the body of the box is made in two parts divided in a plane through its center parallel with the two sides, the two 'parts united by a flange on one part overlapping the flange on the other part, as at a, Fig. 2, the object of the invention being to construct the box so that a plate may appear on.

the surface of one side, as for name or advertising purposes, the invention being designed for the manufacture of tobacco-boxes, matchsafes, and other articles which may be used for advertising purposes. If the side of the box upon which the advertisement may appear is made complete in a single piece, then a special die is required for each particular advertisement, and the boxes can only be made for such particular advertisement. tiplicity of dies for numerous boxes will add so much to the cost of the boxes as to make them impractical for advertising purposes.

The object of my invention is to simplify the construction, whereby a plate may be in troduced into the boxes and not made necessarily a part of the box, and whereby large quantities of boxes may be made with an opening for the insertion of the advertisement or plate, as orders may require, and in such a box, as more fully hereinafter described, my invention consists.

I illustrate the invention as applied to a match-safe. The body of the box is composed This mulof two parts, A B, struck in dies so as to produce a rounded edge, the one part having a like manner, hinged to one edge of the body,

as at I), also in the usual manner. I construct the one side A with an opening, D. This opening is cut entirely through the side, as seen in Fig. 3, and may be of any desirable shape. In the manufacture of boxes large quantities may be made up with this opening. The plate or panel to fill this opening is struck from sheet metal, as seen in Fig. 4, preferably so as to raise the center E of the shape and size of the opening D, as seen in Fig. 2, and so that a flange will be formed around the edge of the plate to lie upon the inner surface of that side of the box, as seen in Fig. 2. On the surface of these panels the name, advertisement, mark, or whatever may be desired, is stamped, and the-panel introduced to the opening from the inside of the box, and there secured, as seen in Fig. 2, by solder or otherwise. Preferably the panel portion E of the plate should project substantially the thickness of the side of the box, as seen in Fig. 2. It maybe made of a different-colored metal so as to serve as an ornament to the box, or it may be of the same color metal and appear as if made or struck in the side of the box.

By making the plate separate and independent from the box I am enabled to make the boxes in large quantities, the panels being made by separate dies to impress the surface with the required lettering.

The cost of the dies for making the plates is very much less than is required for making the whole side of the box, and not only is there this saving of expense in dies, but manufacturing the boxes in such large quantities as they may be where simply the opening D is formed for the plate, there is a great saving in the cost of manufacture over what there would. be were the manufacture limited to a single lot having the panel formed as an integral part of the box, and with its particular lettering.

This illustration of the construction of the I opening, introduced from the inside of the 10 box with reference to match-safes will be snfboX,the said raised surface into said opening ficient to enable those skilled in the art to apthe surrounding surface of the plate lying upon ply the invention to other sheet-metal boxes the inner surface of the side of the box and 5 of like character. secured thereto, substantially as described. I claim- JOSEPH MUN GER. A sheet-metal box having one of its sides Vitnesses: constructed with an opening, D, a plate hav- T. R. HYDE, Jr., ing the raised snrfaceE corresponding to said I G. M. DE Mora. 

